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A brief history of the Elizabeth Warren presidency

From 2050, a look back at our political evolution: A crisis of legitimacy swept across American politics in the second decade of the 21st century. Many people had the general conv...

DATE: Sep 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

What’s really behind this rage against regulation?

Modern conservatives hate regulation, and the Trump administration has channeled that into policy. It has scrapped or gutted rules designed to limit predatory lending to for-profit education...

DATE: Sep 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Let’s debate: Are Democrats doomed to lose?

WASHINGTON – He’s in our heads. Even more than we knew. It isn’t just that he hovered over the Democratic debate last week. It’s more profound than that. Don...

DATE: Sep 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Maureen Dowd

It’s the age of American despair – can we fix it?

Last week, CNN devoted seven hours of programming to climate change, bringing the leading Democratic candidates onstage to grill them on the issue. I have no complaints about the decision, b...

DATE: Sep 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Bring back the old, intriguing Elizabeth Warren

The most important campaign news of the summer was Elizabeth Warren’s surge. Early in the year, her campaign was in fifth place, with a mere 6% support. Now, she is rising toward ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

In Hong Kong, playing tennis with gas grenades

HONG KONG – President Donald Trump has called the pro-democracy protests here “riots,” and China has in effect denounced participants as terrorists. Yet even when chaos reigns dur...

DATE: Sep 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

A surprising path from Zimbabwe to Ivy League

You’ve read a lot over the past year about kids who end up in the Ivy League because of their parents’ wealth and wiles, kids with obscene advantages. I’d like to introduce you to another ki...

DATE: Sep 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Nostalgia breeds derangement. Let’s move on.

In 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” which drew on his years working in Russian television to de...

DATE: Aug 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Palestinian-Israeli peace process is a farce

Last week’s ugly mess involving the abortive visit to Israel of two Democratic congresswomen was useful for only one reason: It exposed how much the Palestinian-Israeli peace process has bec...

DATE: Aug 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Other bad things that could happen in a recession

This column is not in the business of forecasting recessions. But when enough credentialed auguries suddenly think one might be possible, it seems prudent to speculate about the consequences...

DATE: Aug 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Conservatives can’t duck the blame on this one

Connor Betts, the alleged Dayton, Ohio, shooter, believed in socialism, supported Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy, and regularly inveighed on Twitter against various personages on the right (in...

DATE: Aug 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

President Trump lets his followers off the hook

When a president orders up a special script, summons the national media and sends a message to all Americans that the “sinister ideologies” of “racism, bigotry and white supremacy” have no p...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

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